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Keith David Watenpaugh

@kwatenpa.bsky.social

Senior Div-1 Research University Professor. Historian of mass violence, the Middle East and humanitarianism. Sailor, hiker, dad.

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Keith David Watenpaugh @kwatenpa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This lawsuit filed by the American Foreign Service Association outlines the impact of the illegal, wasteful and unethical destruction of USAID - the US Agency for International Development.

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Keith David Watenpaugh @kwatenpa.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Don't be fooled by the headline. I wrote this in 2017.

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Why Trump’s Executive Order Is Wrongheaded and Reckless

The closing of America to the world is an abandonment of the enormous capacity of scholarly work.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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Keith David Watenpaugh @kwatenpa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Goldberg's essay draws a remarkable parallel between what's happening in Washington now and the US' inept (to put it mildly) handling of post-Saddam Iraq (2003).

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Opinion | The Familiar Arrogance of Musk’s Young Apparatchiks

He and his team are treating the government like hostile territory to be conquered.

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Keith David Watenpaugh @kwatenpa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If your projects and programs are being harmed by the elimination of USAID please consider sharing that information at this website: www.globalaidfreeze.com #USAID

globalaidfreeze.com

Global Aid Freeze Tracker

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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Keith David Watenpaugh @kwatenpa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Colleagues & grad students from across the UC gathered at @ucdavis.bsky.social for the first in a series of conferences hosted by UC Davis Human Rights Studies - The University of California Confronts Violence, Mass Atrocity and Hate: Conversations on Human Rights, Humanity and Peacemaking.

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